Triton XVI, Lot: 751. Estimate $2000. Sold for $9500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Anonymous. Circa 225-214 BC. AR Didrachm – Quadrigatus (23mm, 6.50 g, 6h). Uncertain mint. Laureate head of Janus, two annulets atop head / Jupiter, hurling thunderbolt with right hand and holding scepter in left, in quadriga right driven by Victory; ROMA incuse on raised tablet in exergue. Crawford 29/3; Sydenham 64; Kestner 90, 94; BMCRR Romano-Campanian 78-88; RSC 23. EF, gray and iridescent toning, minor flan flaw on reverse, a few light marks under tone.
Ex Elsen 65 (17 Mars 2001), lot 458.